... The aim of this article is to examine the shifting strategies towards the dependence on imported energy which has originated from the lack of energy resources in Denmark. The article suggests that the international economic conditions strongly influenced the energy strategies chosen in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1970s and onwards, the dependence was dealt with as a combination of diversification ...

... In the layperson's imagination, energy is an abstract concept, disconnected from social and ecological realities, while in reality it is the cornerstone of all human and natural interactions; thus, energy policy can be seen as a representation of how part of nature has been appropriated, managed, and represented. This article offers an analysis of Colombian energy policy through its National Energ ...

... The European Commission recently released a proposal for a Regulation establishing a framework for screening of foreign investment into the European Union. The proposal aims at introducing a harmonized regulatory framework for the screening of foreign direct investments by Member States on grounds of security or public order, amongst others in the energy sector. The proposal seems to be catered to ...

... The current paper provides an in-depth analysis of actors’ engagement and its impact on the conceptualization and social perception of energy poverty, its analysis and the design of energy and social policies to confront it.Energy poverty in Spain is mentioned from 2012, conceptualized in 2013 and amplified, becoming socially visible, from 2014, when the phenomenon was quantified after the country ...

... Australia has one of the highest penetrations of residential PV in the world and is projected to see substantially more deployment in coming years, with a growing proportion of this being coupled with battery energy storage (BES). Previous analysis of the implications of these residential distributed energy resources (DERs) has tended to focus on the individual private benefits to households that ...

... Thanks to new technological advancements and EU policy impulse, distributed energy resources (DER) are poised to become a viable alternative to conventional electricity generation for the provision of balancing services to transmission system operators. In this paper we show that the design variables that affect DER access to and participation in the organized balancing market include different fe ...

... Background of the research is that corruption issues arising in the energy sector strongly depends on the location of the resources as well as the monopolistic nature of the undertakings or political decisions. The participation at the public procurement tenders result the information exchange between the competitors therefore lead to the market closure and increased prices for the end-users. Enfo ...